Romanian Ambassador To The U.s.

August 01, 1995|By New York Times News Service.

Mihai Horia Botez, the Romanian ambassador to Washington and an internationally known mathematician and futurist, died July 11 of internal hemorrhaging at a hospital in Bucharest, the embassy confirmed. He was 54.

Mr. Botez came to the United States in 1988 as a political exile from the Communist government of Nicolae Ceausescu, and held academic positions at Stanford University, Indiana University and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.

After Ceausescu was overthrown and executed in a revolution in 1989, the new government in Bucharest in 1993 named Mr. Botez its permanent representative to the United Nations.

A native of Bucharest, he held a doctorate in mathematics from the Romanian Academy of Science. Before his exile, Mr. Botez worked at institutes of the University of Bucharest and a local United Nations demographic center.